Just like us, this is a 'different' year for Indian Navy too. For the obvious reasons, this year the Indian Navy could not celebrate the Navy Day the way they used to. Navy Day is celebrated on November 4 ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Attracted by the city’s latest landmark, thousands of shutterbugs from Behala and New Alipore thronged the mint-fresh Majerhat bridge with friends and families till late on Thursday evening and again early Friday morning to shoot photographs and videos ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: The average peak-hour traffic on the first day of Majerhat bridge service resumption has increased significantly than when it was in use before collapsing in 2018, courtesy an increase in the bridge’s vehicle-carrying capacity, a significant rise in ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: In its old avatar, Majerhat bridge had a high pedestrian traffic volume. The two pavements on either side were always busy. In the new avatar though, pedestrians have been barred from using the bridge for now. They will ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 63-year-old was found dead outside his residence in the wee hours of Friday. Prima facie, cops suspect that the man, Soumitra Sen, ended his life by jumping off the balcony of his three-storey building on Golf Club ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: A three-member foreigner gang, one of them a woman, posed as Belgians and duped a branded apparel store in Phoolbagan of cash after engaging the cashier in a conversation about Bengal and India. Cops have been unable to ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court has taken suo motu cognizance of the capture and smuggling of Indian birds like parrots and hill mynahs after a report published in a newspaper in this regard. The matter has been listed for hearing ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hidco’s plan to set up a multi-storied parking lot with a capacity for 3,000 cars near Biswa Bangla Convetion Centre moved a step closer to reality with the floating of a tender to engage an agency for the ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday expressed extreme displeasure with its own officials for their failure to list a matter for hearing for the past 23 years, despite an order by the then chief justice. This was a habeas ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: The attributes that ignite a true leader within an individual are self-development, team development, strategic thinking and acting, ethical practice, civic-mindedness and innovation, said the principal of St Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Kolkata, Fr Dominic Savio, at X-Orate, a ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Manas Ghosh, a retired school teacher at a state government-aided primary school and a resident of Tollygunge, had to stand in a serpentine queue for over two hours to submit his documents for enrolment in the state’s medical ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: A day after the charge for RT-PCR tests was capped at Rs 950, the Association of Hospitals of Eastern India (AHEI) decided to write to the state government seeking help to procure re-agents at a lower price which ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: The death of three state doctors on Thursday, including two in Kolkata, has set alarm bells ringing across city private hospitals that are bolstering their safety measures afresh for healthworkers who remain exposed to the risk of Covid ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city’s air quality has started degrading fast with steady reduction of ambient temperature and vertical wind speed. Air quality index (AQI) at air quality monitoring stations across the city breached the 300-mark to enter the ‘very poor’ ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: While the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has requested chief minister Mamata Banerjee to reopen schools from January 4, several Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) in Bengal, affiliated to the CBSE, have reverted to online classes after ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Most schools are either keeping accounts sections open or will have a team of officials headed by the principals, who would remain accessible to parents over the weekend for last-minute payments, inquiries and requests regarding fees. By end ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s vision of snarl-free city commute via multiple Metro links in two years seems to be matching RVNL’s deadlines. At least four sections of some crucial Metro corridors are likely to be operational within the ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Feasibility studies of various flyover proposals are ready and the projects can be taken up as soon as funds are sanctioned, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) officials said a day after the CM outlined a plan of a ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hundreds of youths, who have reportedly bagged jobs under a forest department scheme, were allegedly turned away by a “union leader” from the Alipore zoo, where they had gone to join work on Friday morning. The staff even ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaChampdani(Hooghly): Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh hit out at chief minister Mamata Banerjee, citing the spiralling prices of potato and onion back home when farmers had a raw deal. Ghosh claimed that the huge gap between field prices last ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 12 lakh paddy farmers, of an estimated 72 lakh in Bengal, have opted for a government scheme to procure kharif paddy for the public distribution system. The government plans to enrol another 23 lakh farmers into the ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to hand over probe documents against former PCPA leader Chhatradhar Mahato to the advocate-general of Bengal. The NIA has requested the HC to cancel bail granted to ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: An adult female elephant was electrocuted at Haldibari tea estate in Jalpaiguri's Banerhat after coming in contact with a high tension electric line. The carcass was found on Friday morning. This incident was the ninth such in the ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday spoke to farmers on stir at the Delhi-Haryana border in Singhu saying she was with them in their struggle as long as the “anti-farmer” laws are not repealed. Banerjee expressed her willingness ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Outgoing teacher-in-charge of Milli Al-Ameen Mission College Baisakhi Banerjee called on chancellor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday seeking a probe into the recent student agitation in front of the college targeted at her, allegedly to settle political scores with ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday directed East Midnapore district president Sisir Adhikari to start taking disciplinary steps against those who were involved in “anti-party” activities. She was addressing an organizational meeting held with party district heads and ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday refused to review its earlier order directing the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to probe allegations of irregularities in the distribution of relief after Cyclone Amphan ravaged Bengal. ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: One of the ‘post-festival health tips’ series of advertisements tweeted by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has created a furore among tea and coffee lovers. Released under hashtags like #Healthtips and #EatRightIndia, the FSSAI had ...
05 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 63-year-old man, who had lost his job during the Covid-19 crisis, died on Friday after he allegedly jumped from the terrace of a four-storey building in the southern part of the city, police said. Soumitra Sen was ...
04 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The air quality in most parts of Kolkata deteriorated to 'very poor', while it turned 'severe' in the northern parts of the metropolis on Friday, a West Bengal Pollution Control Board (PCB) official said. The automated air monitoring ...
04 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The state government has decided to hand out tablet devices to 9.5 lakh students who are set to appear for Higher Secondary examination next year. The move is aimed at bridging the digital divide and providing opportunity to ...
04 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: Nongpok Sekmai police station in Thoubal district of Manipur has been rated as the best-performing one in the country for 2020. The all-women police station Suramangalam in Tamil Nadu’s Salem occupies the second slot and Kharsang police ...
04 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal lost a senior health official, who was heading a medical college, to Covid-19 on Thursday. Hasi Dasgupta, 57, principal of the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital (CMSDH) — who had attended work till Tuesday — ...
04 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Colleges have reopened the admission process and are inviting students from existing merit list, who have till now not taken admission elsewhere or found a seat in an institute or stream of their choice, to send their request ...
04 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday asked the state DGP to probe an allegation of harassment and extortion of a person by a police officer in a case of alleged cheque fraud, saying, “It is more important to ...
04 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Bengal government on Thursday lowered the ceiling on RT-PCR tests to Rs 950 from Rs 1,500, making the Covid-identifying investigation affordable for a large section of the population even as private hospitals and laboratories said the new ...
04 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 40-year-old history professor of a reputable south Kolkata college — daughter of a retired Kolkata Police inspector — was allegedly attacked by her neighbour on Wednesday night following an argument over feeding five strays in front of ...
04 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: Hours after police decided not to extend the relaxed bicycle policy after almost six months, a few traffic guards began challaning cyclists using roads where bicycles are banned. Police sources said that individual guards were “forced to act” ...
04 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 10-day-old pony — severely bleeding from the legs and visibly in pain — was rescued by a group of Good Samaritans and policemen in New Town on Thursday morning. It was spotted around 8.30am. By the end ...
04 Dec 2020 Times of IndiaKolkata: If the fireworks industry in Bengal has to survive, it needs to invest in research and development. It must shift from age-old methods of making crude fireworks to making new-age, sophisticated green fireworks, a key functionary of the ...
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